Drives IMTU

ericthered · 07-26-2018, 04:20 PM

Where does the heat from dropping potential energy with the M-drive end up? In a specific location? In the ship's drive?

Anti-grav only between enclosed plates is a nice touch.

cptbutton · 07-26-2018, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ericthered

Where does the heat from dropping potential energy with the M-drive end up? In a specific location? In the ship's drive?

Anti-grav only between enclosed plates is a nice touch.

It ends up in the M-drive machinery. The usual practice is either to have radiators out on the hull or use it to heat reaction mass and shoot it out the nozzles. This does change the ship's intrinsic velocity. The pattern of distribution of the reaction mass as it leaves the drive field can be a bit odd.

07-26-2018, 04:20 PM	#1
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